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chore: remove google_search bot#905

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Scraping google search results is no longer possible due to google's anti-scraping measures. Projects that previously depended on scraping google search results have moved away from it. Given that this bot also pulls in a large dep (lxml), It seems preferable to remove it altogether.

Scraping google search results is no longer possible
due to google's anti-scraping measures. Projects that
previously depended on scraping google search results
have [moved away from it](benbusby/whoogle-search#1253).
Given that this bot also pulls in a large dep (lxml),
It seems preferable to remove it altogether.
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